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Reviewed July 01, 2005 12:00 AM

Critical Rating: AAA 1/2

This comedy was a big-budget event in its day (1985), and it's still enjoyable. A mild spoof of American sports mania, it shows what might happen if cock sucking were a national sport, with "suck-offs" held for paying crowds.

Cyndee Summers, a voluptuous redhead whose porn career began in the '70s, plays national defending champ Silk Throat. Gina (billed as Jenna) Carrera, a newcomer at the time, plays Tammy the Tongue, the challenger.

The "Super Bowl of Suck-Offs" takes place in a boxing ring with lots of spectators. Given the subject matter there's naturally a heavy emphasis on oral sex. Big-boob icon Kitten Natividad does girl-girl with Carrera.

The male cast includes such A-list actors as John Leslie, Herschel Savage, an almost skinny Ron Jeremy, as well as newcomer Peter North.

Reviewed June 01, 1985 12:00 AM

Critical Rating: AAAA

Rocky gone hardcore? Impossible, you say? Well,
Stiff Competition is a delightful and accurate spoof
of that fighting fable, as well as all those other
blood-and-guts boxing films which often frequent the
television screen during the week hours of the night. It
starts out rocking and socking and ends by knocking the
viewer into a state of carnal bliss.

The action in Stiff Competition focuses on the "World
Championship Suck-Off Competition," and we're not talking
about a lollipop licking contest. The event offers a
winner-take-all purse of $50,000 and for that much sweet
bread, you better believe that a lot of girls are in serious
tongue graining.

The plot, an absolutely knockout, works on several levels.
The dialogue is witty, the acting credible and the sex
raunchy. Gina Carrera, who stars as Tammy the Tongue, has
star quality written all over her – and on a body like
her, you want to make sure to read the fine print.

Tammy is transformed from impetuous ingénue into The
Mouth That Soared by her manager-lover Kevin James. Her
training methods would leave Rocky Balboa quaking in his
trunks. When she's put through her laps, her feet never leave
the ground.

The former champ, Cyndee Summers, and her manager Jake the
Snake (John Leslie) are determined to make a successful
comeback. Then there's Bridgette Monet's character and
manager Dave Cannon. She pumps his iron on her training
bench, flexing her lingual muscles. All of these colorful
characters set the stage for the rousing, riotously funny
finale. Four sexy competitors, out for blood, tongue it out
for all the marbles.

Stiff Competition pulls no punches. It's always on
target, with sharp jabs and hard hooks below the belt. From
its whirling montage of newspaper headlines proclaiming a new
tongue terror to Paul Thomas' hilarious characterization of
Howard Cosell to Ron Jeremy's Don King (with hair frizzled so
high that we'd bet he put more than his hand in an electrical
socker), Stiff Competition always hits the mark. While
the sexual content focuses mostly on oral antics, there are
two anal scenes that will pup the starch back into your
shorts. This film is a knockout – a winner whether you
want to get happy or horny.